MSA Year 2 - CUBE / Light Pavilion Project - presentation notes
Er... my presentation notes for the Year 2, Manchester School of Architecture, MMU CUBE / Light Pavilion Project using Monomatic's PEAL hardware...
Hi. My name is Lewis Sykes.
I’m an artist, curator, producer and researcher working in the field of interactive, sonic media art.
I’m starting the second year of a research PhD project at MIRIAD, MMU - The Augmented Tonoscope.
But I’m here wearing a different hat - as one half of Monomatic - a creative partnership with composer, performer, software architect, programmer and sound designer Nick Rothwell.
We produced a piece of work in 2009 - PEAL: A Virtual Campanile or English church bell tower.
http://vimeo.com/10197258
Hi-res image of PEAL columns with dimensions
You’re going to be using the core PEAL hardware as a pre-made technological solution for the ‘Light Pavilion’ project - and through this you’re going to explore how you might work with and control light for creative effect and how light can be used as an architectural medium.
I think an important aspect of this project is about interactivity - your task is to think about, design and propose an installation that interacts with the audience in some way.
So what do we mean by interactivity in this context? Here’s a definition of interactive art that might help:
“Interactive art is a form of installation-based art that involves the spectator in a way that allows the art to achieve its purpose.”
I’m also going to introduce a simple model of interactivity that should help you think about different types of interaction.
x-axis - input - (nature of data)
Incidental - Authored
y-axis - output - (the way the work responds to the data)
Interpreted - Direct
simple everyday examples:
leds on a wireless router
examples from commercial creative design agencies:
Shortcut - Jason Bruges Studio - http://www.jasonbruges.com/projects/uk-projects/shortcut
Uniqlo Stripes - Hellicar & Lewis - http://www.hellicarandlewis.com/2010/11/23/uniqlo-stripes/c
Array - United Visual Artists - http://www.uva.co.uk/work/array#/0